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by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Sep 22, 2019 5:56 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

Yes and my hope is that people start realizing increasingly how rapidly much of the discourse is turning into mostly noise without any consequence. Thank you for admitting your opinions on race don't matter. Or were you excluding those for some reason? Since when did I have opinions on race? I star...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Sep 22, 2019 5:34 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36688

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

... all of causality appears as ordinary finite things, because they are necessarily bound up with the rest of it. Appearances are the opposite of infinitude. If you insist on non-dualism, we still cannot speak of causality "appearing as" since it would be at the same time not appearing a...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Sep 21, 2019 9:48 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

If only i could write riveting novels or find someone to work with because a lot of the material might be better off somewhat distanced from realism, so people can handle it, like Orwells 1984. First become sufficiently famous or notorious, then publishers will cue for your biography and offer ghos...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:56 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

Well this perspective certainly explains why all of your predictions about his presidency fell flat! If anything he represents the attempt to restore the neoliberal world order by directing white settler-proletariat indignation upon coloured folk with some vague economic populism thrown in. Actuall...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sat Sep 21, 2019 8:30 pm
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Bush did 9/11
Replies: 4
Views: 12503

Re: Bush did 9/11

So for some reason, a kind of childish nativity forces you, like so many over-excited conspiracy junkies, to refer to authorities like a handful of "well-known academics" in a rather large field of experts to bash the conclusions of the final 9/11 Commission Report based on documented and ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Sep 20, 2019 6:26 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Defining Racism
Replies: 36
Views: 51131

Re: Defining Racism

Yes I agree. Racism should remain in the historical context of that particular theory of the origin of races and the proposed inherent differences, including the idea that mixing was a bad idea to allow outside some marginal flow. Sadly enough it got way more meanings over time. But even a wider def...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Sep 20, 2019 5:51 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Trump
Replies: 352
Views: 1417887

Re: Trump

Hi Rhett, it's been a while since I've seen you post here. How have you been? As for Trump, my views have developed over the years as well on the topic. Three years ago I started here, before the final election. the naked, personal ambition coated with a truck load of staggering braggadocio. That hi...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Sep 13, 2019 8:48 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Bush did 9/11
Replies: 4
Views: 12503

Re: Bush did 9/11

Unusual trading is also something that... just happens sometimes? Anyone has a graph on the variance of the distribution over decades? Some unusual trading did in fact occur, but each such trade proved to have an innocuous explanation. For example, the volume of put options — instruments that pay of...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:20 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: dealing with stuck 'piti'
Replies: 1
Views: 12440

Re: dealing with stuck 'piti'

"Where the concentration goes, the energy flows". It might be all simply a side-effect of concentration, when some tension of over-stimulation simply exhausts parts of the mental capacity. Rapid blood flow to the fine maze of vessels around the brain certainly can cause aches or tension. T...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Sep 08, 2019 11:09 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
Replies: 72
Views: 112281

Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell

To believe relativism's variety preaches truth over precise individual experience, of just one occurrence, is man's self produced disorder, and a dance with the devil, especially when resistance, by words, lack comprehension of Spirit's identity. When one states "a first step to understanding ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Sep 02, 2019 5:56 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: The path to wisdom in a nutshell
Replies: 72
Views: 112281

Re: The path to wisdom in a nutshell

The more we talk about wisdom the more we reveal our ignorance for what we don’t know is the path to wisdom is also the path to ignorance. So, where do we go from here? Any suggestions? If I'd try to work with that, I'd say this is realizing the limitations of knowledge, what we really know about t...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:15 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events
Replies: 11
Views: 25661

Re: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events

That means existing starts by thinking about one's existence. (???) When entering the realm of meaning and starting to assign significance, everything will be related by whatever the sense of the absolute already is in that context, like some background light. And in a way things then "materia...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Sep 01, 2019 3:11 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36688

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

Principles apply to finite things no matter how abstract you make them. So the will or desire to be truthful about the nature of finite things cannot originate in them. The will to truth is also a finite thing, and like any finite thing it is created and destroyed by the All. An idea or principle l...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:07 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36688

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

Causality, and as such the eternal, exists. And nothing else does, in the same sense. Only this can answer truthfully to logic. The reason why your first sentence - only causality exists - cannot be true is because it has to conclude in your second sentence - nothing else does . What is this "...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Aug 25, 2019 5:57 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events
Replies: 11
Views: 25661

Re: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events

Replacing notions of existence with that of appearance does not address anything at all. All you do is call every form of existence "appearance". Right. This confuses me. If existing means appearing, why not drop 'existing' altogether and all things are simply appearances? I'm not trying ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:44 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36688

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

What do you mean by 'hard' determinism? Britannica states that - Determinism, in philosophy, is a theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes. Determinism is usually understood to preclude free will because it entails that humans cannot a...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Fri Aug 23, 2019 7:24 pm
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events
Replies: 11
Views: 25661

Re: Notions of 'objective reality' that keep me troubled - temporal events

(.....)it's not needed to understand the nature of things. The tree exists when it makes an appearance, the molecular structure of the tree exists when it makes an appearance, the 'imagined displacements/vibrations, minus the microphone and oscilloscope setup' exist when they appear. They do not dw...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Aug 19, 2019 6:55 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36688

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

I don't know if it's ever been admitted on the forum that accurate modelling and foolproof 'predictability' of events (that seems to be implied by determinism) might just be fundamentally unattainable, and that's fine because it doesn't disprove A=A. Perhaps one could treat any statements regarding...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Aug 19, 2019 6:47 am
Forum: GENIUS FORUM
Topic: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?
Replies: 23
Views: 36688

Re: Why jump through hoops to defend determinism?

A causes itself by causing not-A. This only makes a bit of sense on some kind of time scale with feedback loops. But that all distracts from the logical, timeless sense. Saying something causes "itself" defies the essential element of causality. Here "A" is caused by everything ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Aug 12, 2019 6:12 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292491

Re: The social justice wars

Pointing out Biden's documented support for racialist policies and politicians is just SJW nonsense! Now I would not call it SJW for so many reasons. But Biden has worked harder against all forms of racism than most people out there and there's no "support" documented beyond some standard...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Aug 12, 2019 5:47 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Flakes and Jackasses
Replies: 36
Views: 51085

Re: Flakes and Jackasses

So it is not a matter of any view on life being skewed (such an idea would indeed cause suffering), rather, it is a matter of a lapse of ignorance of the infinite Self (for lack of a better term), which when acknowledged, releases the tension or stress (the suffering) of view-as-shadow. It seems mi...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Aug 04, 2019 6:25 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292491

Re: The social justice wars

However, Marianne Wilson has more or less filled that void. She is, to paraphrase Jung, my new Anima Woman. And also new Dragongirl, and also new Mammy. For some reason it's being stressed that Rainn Wilson of “The Office” fame (Dwight Schrute) contributed $500 to her 2014 congressional campaign......
by Diebert van Rhijn
Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:53 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Flakes and Jackasses
Replies: 36
Views: 51085

Re: Flakes and Jackasses

The lotus roots indeed, hidden deep in the mud, even below the moving waters. A symbol for the context of ourselves. We show up, relatively, in our words, our spaces, accents, cultural imagery invoked by words, mental limitations and gifts, our connections, typing style, computer connections, media ...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Tue Jul 16, 2019 5:50 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: Flakes and Jackasses
Replies: 36
Views: 51085

Re: Flakes and Jackasses

No wisdom here. But something is being demonstrated nevertheless. Patterns revolving around truncating and self-contradicting ideas, smearing the landscape of subtle meaning with broad strokes, invoking the nihilistic habit of favoring destruction, flattening and ridicule over construction. Somehow...
by Diebert van Rhijn
Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:07 am
Forum: Worldly Matters
Topic: The social justice wars
Replies: 254
Views: 292491

Re: The social justice wars

Hi Jup still there hanging on! It's about whether Ben Shapiro holds racist views despite being the target of racist accusations. Shapiro being the target of racist insults/accusations does not erase or vindicate Shapiro's own demonstrable racist views. The charge of racism may not apply to the avera...